Chesapeake teen shot trying to enter wrong house

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A teenager received minor injuries in an early morning shooting Sunday. The 16-year-old was taken to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.
At 3:13 a.m. Sunday, ...

Chesapeake teen shot trying to enter wrong house

A teenager received minor injuries in an early morning shooting Sunday. The 16-year-old was taken to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.

At 3:13 a.m. Sunday, Chesapeake Police responded to a call about a home invasion in the 1100 block of Old Vintage Road, in the Vintage Estates area off Johnstown Road. Police spokesman Charles Thiebaed said police heard two shots when they arrived.

Police said the teenager had been drinking and was trying to get into a house he thought was his but actually was a neighbor's. The neighbor fired two shots at the teen, hitting him once, according to police.

You know, I've been drunk in my life, but never that drunk. OK, maybe even that drunk when I was much younger and dumber, but I never even ended up in the wrong barracks room (and they all look the same!) much less the wrong house...

Hope the kid is OK and learns a lesson, and that the homeowner was justified and isn't charged.

A man fires a rifle for many years, and he goes to war. And afterward he turns the rifle in at the armory, and he believes he's finished with the rifle. But no matter what else he might do with his hands - love a woman, build a house, change his son's diaper - his hands remember the rifle.

"Not only do the people who put their lives on the line to protect the rest of us deserve better, we all deserve better than to have our own security undermined by those who undermine law enforcement." -Thomas Sowell

I hope that I wouldn't have made the same decision. I was always taught to identify the target first before firing. If this had been done, one might have taken the time to realize its just a drunk neighbor boy with no weapon and properly escort him to his parents house.